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This week Steve gives the deep dive into the reason and the how for documentation. It's an essential thing in any IT environment, it doesn't get nearly enough love so we shine a spotlight on it.
-- During The Show --
00:45 Intro
• Sound effects
• RPG Web UI
• Never Winter Nights
• Kansas City
• Steve and traveling
09:18 News Wire
• GTK 4.24 - gnome.org
• Shotwell 33 - gnome.org
• Agama Installer 24 - github.io
• Cosmic v1.8 https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.8
• Debian 13.7 Trixie - debian.org
• MocaccinoOS 26.09 - mocaccino.org
• DietPi 10.7 - dietpi.com
• KaOS 2026.09 - kaosx.us
• Ubuntu 24.04.5 - phoronix.com
• Sandbox Challenge - securityweek.com
• Lunar Exploration Model - ibm.com
• CUDA-Q Expands - nvidia.com
10:30 Documentation
• Document "why" something was done
• Assumption and argument
• What needs to be documented
• Reproducer - Blow it away and set it up again
• Document everything
• Why do people resist documenting
• Executive vs Technical Summaries
• Tribal knowledge
• Styles of documentation
• White papers
• CMA
• What should you NOT document
• Process of documenting
• Where do you document
• Wiki.js
• Markdown
• Steve's container documentation
• Steve's GitHub
• Steve's Red Hat profile
• Hackaday
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